You're clearly unfamiliar with Steve Jobs and Apple. =)
Seriously, though, they went through that period (want a Performa 6115? Or a 6116? One has a PDS adapter, one has more RAM.) There were a ton of Macs in the retail channel, everything was getting clogged up, and the user had no idea which machine to buy. The company almost went out of business as a result.
A major reason is that trackballs are a lot thicker than trackpads. If you look inside a trackball-bearing notebook, usually there is nothing below the device for lack of space. With laptops so thin nowadays, old-fashioned trackballs just aren't practical. Heck, the ball on a PowerBook 160 is roughly as thick as the entire TiBook.
I, too, miss trackballs, but we're stuck with pads (and I hate points.)
All of the open source parts are still open source. (Even though they're all in the BSD license and don't have to be. Compare BSD and GPL some day.) The closed source parts are written by Apple and kept in a safe deep below Apple headquarters (figuratively.)
As to the latter part, that's not a practical thing to do.
I'm moaning about the spelling and the content. You've never addressed what that sig of yours actually means.
Apple has released many changes back to GCC. The APSL is perfectly compatible with your favorite license. It's just your blind hatred of Apple, proper spelling, and commercial software that causes you to flick your wrist instinctively and without understanding.
Actually, I mean OS. You can take away all of the gooey GUI goodness and use Darwin as a reasonable, capable operating system. The kernel is OSF Mach 3 (iirc.)
Mac OS X is an updated version of OpenStep. Mac OS X is a series of libraries that sit on top of an operating system called Darwin. Darwin is derived from 4.4BSD-Lite and uses the OSF Mach microkernel. This underlying operating system was called Mach by NeXT back when it was their product.
How about my operating system? GNU/Mac OS X/Mach? It runs on the Mach kernel (used to be called the Mach OS in the NEXTSTEP/OpenStep [OpenStep for Windows NT vs. OpenStep for Mach]) and uses a lot of GNU tools.
It is informative. I didn't know that he was hopping up and down in a yellow suit. Now I'm informed.
Anyhow, Jon was on the other side of the fountain giving me the documents. What John Jorsett doesn't realize is that Mr. Aba is colorblind, so he sees orange as yellow. Fortunately, I knew to wear an all-orange suit (with orange bowler had borrowed from the John Steed estate.)
"This I HOPE will give you and your loved ones SAFE PASSAGE! Maybe later we can also arrange to bring to Manila the remains of your SHOT-DEAD SISTER to honor her with a PROPER SIX-FOOT HOLE BURIAL in the ground!!!"
NeXT stuff under the hood? You mean the assorted UNIX libraries that provide the GUI and such? How's that different from KDE or CDE?
DPS hasn't been used since 1999 or so. The only thing that makes it UNIX is that it runs some UNIX commands? How is anything else more UNIX? Linux is less UNIX than Mac OS X if you want to be a pedantic jerk, really.
Hate computers? I love computers. Switch from Linux? I did. I want to have apps. I want to have a UI that doesn't make me depressed just thinking about it. I don't want to have to deal with the PC hardware every day. I switched and I couldn't be happier.
Port Linux to OS X? Do you have any idea what you're talking about?
"Just run the X Server on OS X... Hop to it..."? THAT'S WHAT THE FUCKING ARTICLE IS ABOUT. If you're going to troll, at least put some thought into it. I mean, geezus!
I have an I300. It's awful. The graffiti barely works and the OS updates don't support it. So I'm stuck with a phone that was damned expensive and with hwr that barely works. (I've had Palm devices since 1998, and I can do graffiti just fine. I guarantee that my 'A' form doesn't look like a '1' form. When it gets angry, all the characters come out as '1's. It's endlessly frustrating when I have to jot something down quickly.
The real problems were with the instability of the XP software. Of course once he got it working, the USB slowness kicked in and he just ran out of time.
Wow. Good God, man. I never thought of the idea. Good lord, if I could have my MP3s while I was swimming, I'd swim for hours each day and would be in the shape that I've always wanted. Wow.
I was getting ready to leave for a road trip and was transferring songs from my PowerBook to my iPod. At the same time, my friend was trying to move songs to his MiniDisc with NetMD. I'm not joking, in fifteen minutes I had transferred roughly 16GB of music and was sitting in the car and he, through struggle with crashing (the XP MD software) and the plain slowness of his USB connection got, I kid you not, one song transferred. Needless to say, the others of us going on the trip had a good laugh as he ran out of music about the time we left his street.
Amusingly, the road trip was to an Apple Store for the Jag event. He was looking very closely at the iPods on display.:-)
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You're clearly unfamiliar with Steve Jobs and Apple. =)
Seriously, though, they went through that period (want a Performa 6115? Or a 6116? One has a PDS adapter, one has more RAM.) There were a ton of Macs in the retail channel, everything was getting clogged up, and the user had no idea which machine to buy. The company almost went out of business as a result.
A major reason is that trackballs are a lot thicker than trackpads. If you look inside a trackball-bearing notebook, usually there is nothing below the device for lack of space. With laptops so thin nowadays, old-fashioned trackballs just aren't practical. Heck, the ball on a PowerBook 160 is roughly as thick as the entire TiBook.
I, too, miss trackballs, but we're stuck with pads (and I hate points.)
All of the open source parts are still open source. (Even though they're all in the BSD license and don't have to be. Compare BSD and GPL some day.) The closed source parts are written by Apple and kept in a safe deep below Apple headquarters (figuratively.)
As to the latter part, that's not a practical thing to do.
I'm moaning about the spelling and the content. You've never addressed what that sig of yours actually means.
Apple has released many changes back to GCC. The APSL is perfectly compatible with your favorite license. It's just your blind hatred of Apple, proper spelling, and commercial software that causes you to flick your wrist instinctively and without understanding.
BSLinux? =)
I'm not sure if I agree with that. I mean OS X has bash, gcc, emacs, bison, and more.
Actually, I mean OS. You can take away all of the gooey GUI goodness and use Darwin as a reasonable, capable operating system. The kernel is OSF Mach 3 (iirc.)
Horse. Dead. Thwack. Thwack. Thwack.
Uh, which article?
Mac OS X is an updated version of OpenStep. Mac OS X is a series of libraries that sit on top of an operating system called Darwin. Darwin is derived from 4.4BSD-Lite and uses the OSF Mach microkernel. This underlying operating system was called Mach by NeXT back when it was their product.
section from the Peanuts NeXT FAQ might be helpful.
I know. I was trying to make a joke about things being hard to pronounce by supplying an example of one of the weirdest ones around =)
How about my operating system? GNU/Mac OS X/Mach? It runs on the Mach kernel (used to be called the Mach OS in the NEXTSTEP/OpenStep [OpenStep for Windows NT vs. OpenStep for Mach]) and uses a lot of GNU tools.
From www.gnu.org: (GNU is a recursive acronym for ``GNU's Not Unix''; it is pronounced "guh-NEW".)
Besides, they're not all hard to pronounce. What about LaTeX?
I thought that was AOL...
"Woz submarine sinks scientology fleet" is just too surreal for me.
Well, that's 'cause Salon has a little credibility, being an actual news site with actual authors who have to actually defend their journalism.
It is informative. I didn't know that he was hopping up and down in a yellow suit. Now I'm informed.
Anyhow, Jon was on the other side of the fountain giving me the documents. What John Jorsett doesn't realize is that Mr. Aba is colorblind, so he sees orange as yellow. Fortunately, I knew to wear an all-orange suit (with orange bowler had borrowed from the John Steed estate.)
Fantastic! Wonderful!
"This I HOPE will give you and your loved ones SAFE PASSAGE! Maybe later we can also arrange to bring to Manila the remains of your SHOT-DEAD SISTER to honor her with a PROPER SIX-FOOT HOLE BURIAL in the ground!!!"
That's deluxe. Website and all. "The Pursuit of Truth and Reason."
Mr. Mobutu isn't going to give me 14% of his findings!
I gave him my account number!
Weird microkernel? Mach? It's older than NT.
NeXT stuff under the hood? You mean the assorted UNIX libraries that provide the GUI and such? How's that different from KDE or CDE?
DPS hasn't been used since 1999 or so. The only thing that makes it UNIX is that it runs some UNIX commands? How is anything else more UNIX? Linux is less UNIX than Mac OS X if you want to be a pedantic jerk, really.
Hate computers? I love computers. Switch from Linux? I did. I want to have apps. I want to have a UI that doesn't make me depressed just thinking about it. I don't want to have to deal with the PC hardware every day. I switched and I couldn't be happier.
Port Linux to OS X? Do you have any idea what you're talking about?
... Hop to it..."? THAT'S WHAT THE FUCKING ARTICLE IS ABOUT. If you're going to troll, at least put some thought into it. I mean, geezus!
"Just run the X Server on OS X
I have an I300. It's awful. The graffiti barely works and the OS updates don't support it. So I'm stuck with a phone that was damned expensive and with hwr that barely works. (I've had Palm devices since 1998, and I can do graffiti just fine. I guarantee that my 'A' form doesn't look like a '1' form. When it gets angry, all the characters come out as '1's. It's endlessly frustrating when I have to jot something down quickly.
Nope. 5, 10, 20GB.
The real problems were with the instability of the XP software. Of course once he got it working, the USB slowness kicked in and he just ran out of time.
Wow. Good God, man. I never thought of the idea. Good lord, if I could have my MP3s while I was swimming, I'd swim for hours each day and would be in the shape that I've always wanted. Wow.
I was getting ready to leave for a road trip and was transferring songs from my PowerBook to my iPod. At the same time, my friend was trying to move songs to his MiniDisc with NetMD. I'm not joking, in fifteen minutes I had transferred roughly 16GB of music and was sitting in the car and he, through struggle with crashing (the XP MD software) and the plain slowness of his USB connection got, I kid you not, one song transferred. Needless to say, the others of us going on the trip had a good laugh as he ran out of music about the time we left his street.
:-)
Amusingly, the road trip was to an Apple Store for the Jag event. He was looking very closely at the iPods on display.
(True story.)
(a deltic so please dont moan about spelling but the content)
What the hell does that mean!?